CUSTOM MADE / TSITSLEM TE STEM TE CK'ULTENS-KUC

Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut // Rebecca Belmore // Hannah Claus // Wally Dion // Phil Gray // Maggie Groat // Maureen Gruben // Gabrielle Hill // Merritt Johnson // Ursula Johnson // Brian Jungen // Bev Koski // Mike MacDonald // Amy Malbeuf // Divya Mehra // Peter Morin // Nadia Myre // Jeneen Frei Njootli // Wendy Red Star // Charlene Vickers

Central Gallery
June 27 to September 12, 2015

Curated by Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada Council Aboriginal Curator in Residence, Tania Willard

CUSTOM MADE / Tsitslem te stem te ck'ultens-kuc focuses on artists referencing skills-based artistic production within a contemporary and transformative context. The exhibition explores the ways in which artists are manipulating, transposing and re-learning skills-based arts like beadwork and basketry and how they are relating these skills to cultural heritage, new materials, concepts and techniques. CUSTOM MADE frames a dialogue between artists whose works cross boundaries, challenging and conflating binaries of art and craft, both contemporary and traditional.